I think, therefore I am. I am what I think. What do you think about all day?
Are you one of those people for whom diets don’t work? Have you tried to make changes in your life to reduce stress or be happier but nothing seems to work for you? Do you catch every cold and flu bug that goes around?
You experiment with all kinds of diets, tricks and techniques to make things better for yourself. Some work a little but don’t last. Some don’t work at all.
Instead of blaming the tricks and techniques for not working, how about blaming your core beliefs about yourself?
“If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?” ~William Somerset Maugham
Who Really Runs the Show?
Your subconscious mind has incredible power over your life. It leads you to take actions that sabotage the best intentions of your conscious mind. It creates buttons that you allow others to press, seemingly against your will.
Your subconscious also tells all the cells in your body how to live, breathe, grow, reproduce and die. Whatever you’re thinking, consciously or subconsciously, is transmitted through your neural network to the rest of your body. You’re sending the cells in your body messages all the time, and your cells promptly obey.
And what drives your subconscious? Your beliefs.
Some people don’t like how their bodies are but they believe that “That’s just the way it is.” They’ve tried so hard to change their bodies. Unfortunately, that trying is simply trying to do things that other people have told them they should do. There’s no core belief that these actions will work.
They don’t have a core belief that they are the person they’re trying to become. They don’t have a strong belief that the new vision can be permanent. The vision fades and they go back to the person they’ve defined themselves to be.
If you believe, in your core, that you’re a happy, healthy person, you’ll do everything in your power to make sure that you’re healthy and happy. It becomes a very high priority. If, for some reason, your health or happiness are threatened, you’ll do everything you can to bring yourself back to the person you believe that you are.
If you think you’re fat and frumpy, then diets will never work for you. You may lose a few pounds and do a little exercise or, more likely, find excuses not to. But being thin doesn’t align with who you think you are. As soon as you quit the diet, you resume your old habits to reinforce the message from your subconscious that you’re fat and frumpy.
Your Beliefs Determine Your Health
If you’re sick and you truly believe that you’re going to be well, your cells will listen to that. Add some actions in the right direction and you’ll get better. If you just tell yourself and you don’t believe it, the healing is much less likely to happen.
Some people decide, after a doctor tells them that they only have a certain amount of time to live, that they want more time. Having a strong belief that’s different from their doctors, they live as long as they decide to. And there are those who believe their doctors and die when their doctors tell them they will (this is known as medical hexing).
The western medicine theory that thoughts and beliefs (the mind) have nothing to do with physical health (the body) has been disproven for decades. The placebo effect is an example of this.
People take pills and have surgeries thinking that they’ll get better. There have been many studies that prove that the rates of improvement are about the same for people receiving placebos as those receiving drugs and real surgeries. However, the placebo recipients don’t experience all the negative side effects.
As these studies have been analyzed, the key ingredient in the improvement is the person’s and their doctor’s belief that they would get better.
You can make yourself sick or you can make yourself well. It simply depends on what you believe.
The science behind the link between beliefs and their effects on the body is called Epigenetics. It basically says that we’re not a victim of our genes. We have much more power over our physical body by controlling our beliefs and environment.
Does This Really Work?
This concept also works with life-threatening diseases like cancer.
Louise Hay, a noted personal development author and speaker, cured herself of cancer after dealing with buried emotions she carried throughout her life from childhood sexual abuse. Once she cleared some deep-seated resentments that she didn’t realize she had, her cancer disappeared.
She discusses this process in the introduction of her book, Heal Your Body A to Z. I personally refer to this book every time I have any kind of pain or ailment. The book is an alphabetical listing of physical ailments with the corresponding emotional trigger.
I have countless examples of cases where I’ve had an intense or nagging pain somewhere in my body or can’t seem to get over an illness quickly enough. Rather than reaching for medications or seeing a doctor, I find the issue in this book and meditate on the emotional trigger.
In every cas,e I’ve identified the emotional trigger in my life and cleared it. Within a few hours of clearing the emotion, the physical issue “magically” disappears.
Experiencing dis-ease is one of the ways your body tells you what your thoughts and beliefs are, regardless of what your conscious mind thinks. Your job is to listen to those messages and act on them.
Your body listens to your core beliefs – what you believe in your heart and soul. If you don’t believe it, your body won’t manifest it.
This is why, many times, affirmations and positive thinking don’t work. You have to believe it in your core. For some people, affirmations work because they’ve repeated the positivity long enough for it to become a belief. But simply saying positive things to yourself a few times isn’t going to cut it.
How Do I Change My Beliefs?
If your life is full of things you don’t want, know that you’re living out some unwanted and unproductive beliefs. You need to identify these unwanted beliefs in order to change them. If you’re having trouble figuring out what your unwanted beliefs are, look at the results you’re producing in various aspects of your life.
For example, if you’re overweight, perhaps you have a belief that you must keep all the extra weight on to protect yourself from other people getting close to you because you’re not worthy of love because you were abused or abandoned at some point in your past.
Or you live with heightened levels of stress and worry because you feel that your stress and worry is preventing very bad things from happening because you grew up watching your mother do the same thing.
Or you’re chronically sick because this causes other people to feel sorry for you and spend more time with you and you mistake all this attention for love that you so desperately crave but can’t get because you’ve never learned to give it.
The next step is to feel the pain these beliefs have created in your life. A belief about your body can affect your health, self-image, self-esteem, relationships, ability to achieve things and your finances.
Think about and feel the negative impact your unwanted beliefs have had on all the different areas of your life.
Now think about what your life will be like in five, ten and twenty five years if you don’t change anything. How much worse with your situation and your health be? Will you still be around?
Now that you’re feeling like absolute crap, shake it off and figure out what positive belief you want to embed in your subconscious instead.
Think about and feel how absolutely amazing your life will be when you make this one change in belief. Consider how much better your health, relationships, finances and self-confidence will be.
Again, think about what your life will be like in five, ten and twenty five years after you’ve changed your belief and changed your life. What will you have accomplished? How will you feel about yourself? How vibrant and energetic will you be?
Go through this exercise of feeling the pain around your old beliefs and the pleasure around your new beliefs every day.
Just like with affirmations, when you repeatedly feel the different feelings, your subconscious will begin to re-wire itself and your life will never be the same.
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Holistic Hot Sauce (video interview): Mindfulness: Slowing Down To Speed Up
I had an awesome time speaking with Sarah O’Leary at Holistic Hot Sauce about all things mindfulness. In this interview we covered:
- How I found the courage to quit my corporate cubicle job to jump into the unknown and ultimately find my life purpose.
- What is mindfulness really? How this ‘buzzword’ can make a huge difference in YOUR life.
- What are some steps to moving to a more mindful lifestyle?
- What is is mindful eating, and why is it important?
- The paradox of slowing down to speed up. The counter-intuitive pathway to creative inspiration (and getting more done!)
- Why the practice of mindfulness can hold a special resonance for midlife women.
- How to take the angst out of making choices and decisions.
- How we can use mindfulness to cultivate the body we want to live in. (Hint – it’s not about just the diet and exercise.)
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The Mindful Living Guide
Hi Paige,
I’m really hoping you can help me or point me in the right direction.
its kind of embarrassing but I have been suffering with low selfesteem and feeling like I’m not good enough from as early as I can remember…I am now 37 and feel like its time to really change and start living my life…I have tried so many different things and nothing has really helped, these are
EFT on my own and with a practitioner
Bodytalk
hypnotherapy – regression and suggestion
the balance procedure
mindfulness
a few different life coaches
at the moment I feel sick constantly with myself and feel that I’m a bit of a pointless person that has nothing to offer, find it very hard to make and keep friends and generally feel pretty hopeless…luckily I have a lovely husband and a beautiful daughter…I have always felt like people don’t like me and that I’m not good enough…but I also can’t shake the feeling that I’m not supposed to feel like this and that something must be able to help….
please anyone I would be so grateful of any help…I can’t take it anymore.
The feeling of not being enough is so endemic in our society. It took me years to work through it myself. From my own experience, there’s no magic wand to suddenly make it go away. You’re reprogramming a lifetime of beliefs. And that’s the key – these are merely beliefs and they can be changed.
I’ve had a hard time making and keeping friends but it’s because I’m inherently an introvert and spending time with friends, while fun, takes a ton of energy for me. I’d actually rather spend the time alone or with my family. That’s not a fault of mine. It’s just how I am.
If no one liked you, you wouldn’t be blessed with a lovely husband and beautiful daughter. They not only like you – they love you dearly.
The thing with beliefs is that they’re only true if you continue to believe them. Your subconscious constantly searches for evidence to prove that your beliefs are true. It’s up to you to seek out evidence to the contrary – and there’s plenty of it when you start looking for it. But it takes effort to overcome that old programming.
When the feelings of “not enough” were overwhelming me, I began journaling about what I was thinking: What is enough? Who gets to decide that? And who made them the boss of me? I wrote about some of this here: https://www.simplemindfulness.com/2013/02/09/how-to-be-enough/
My friend, Barrie Davenport, focuses on improving self confidence and has a course called Simple Self-Confidence: http://simpleselfconfidence.com/
Trying to be enough is a pointless endeavor because you are enough just as you are. If you think otherwise then you’re leaving your worth up to other people’s opinions who ultimately don’t matter.
I’m guessing that at some early stage you were told that you and your opinions don’t matter and that other people were more important (our schools do a great job of this). This is part of our early programming so that we’re sheep who follow rules and the whims of others throughout our lives. This kind of life sucks and you CAN change your beliefs.
It’s time to take off the wet blanket you’ve been living under and spread your wings. Chloe, you’re beautiful and wonderful and it’s up to you to prove that to the world. You’re awesome!!
Hi Paige,
The power of our beliefs really are immense and can make or break our world. Lots of great tips in your article and sometimes it can be as simple as asking the question, “What is that belief based on?”. I have seen clients transformed by this question when the penny drops. We often don’t question our beliefs, I mean really hold them up in front of ourselves, look them in the eye and say, “Why are you here?”. Beliefs are the filter through which we see the world. And through confirmation bias our mind will find everything it can to back up those beliefs. We really have to be conscious and in the moment when we look at them.
Love your comment Keith! I couldn’t agree with you more – noticing that that’s my belief. 🙂
In addition to asking about the source or purpose of the belief, it’s always good to ask if the belief is helping us to be happier. So often we get tied to a belief, not realizing that our attachment to it is causing a variety of negative feelings and, sometimes, ill health.
Mindfulness, while so subtle, can be so powerful.
Knowledgeable, but entertaining, as are many of your posts.
I read through the archives over the past week, and I must say I think I’m smitten.
Thanks so much Nabhendu! Have an awesome day!!
Hi, Recent research when trialling new drugs has found it is more difficult to prove the effectiveness of the drug over a placebo. A placebo given by a caring physician is even more effective than otherwise. In other words, the briefest moment spent taking a tablet once a day and the transient act of faith which accompanies it is more powerful in many cases than powerful medication. It is made even better by a caring comment once in a while from a stranger.
The power of the subconscious.
I completely agree with you Joe. Today I was speaking with a woman who moved here from Russia twenty years ago. She said that, in Russia back then, doctors came to their homes and had no medications. They offered simple home remedies which were often incredibly effective.
To your point, I think the fact that a relative stranger took the time to come to someone’s home and spend focused time on being with them and helping to heal them was much more effective than any drug. The good feelings created in the patient and the faith that healing was immanent were the other contributing factors. All of this is what is missing in medicine today, thus we’re left to hang our fragile hope on a pill.
This is such a great point! I love how you put this. Most people that write in this topic focus on using affirmations and just scratch the surface of how to actually change your belief system. I like how you describe how it is important to feel the negative emotion of the belief that you don’t want as well as the positive emotions of the belief system that you do which to live by in the future. Most people only talk about feeling positive emotions when you are visualizing to retrain your subconscious, but I agree a little bit of focus on what you don’t want makes it even more clear to you subconscious what you actually want it to believe and why. Thanks for this post!
I use brainwave entrainment in my time of meditation to help me communicate these emotions to my subconscious a little easier. That has helped me really be able to supercharge the effectiveness of this process that you describe.
So glad the post was helpful for you Shawn! In my experience, simply saying affirmations or thinking positive thoughts is like brushing a thin layer of white paint over deeply scarred and moldy drywall. Because of the damage below, the paint can’t cover it all up and the damage will quickly cause the paint to flake away.
Systems like EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique or tapping) use a focus on the negative to remove the strong emotions that have been caused by things you don’t want in order to create more of what you do want. And, yes, brainwave entrainment is very powerful as well. Thanks so much for this!
I have very much enjoyed reading your articles this evening. In this you have very clearly summarised my belief in the power of the subconscious and our ability to change its programmes and improve our lives and health. So clearly expressed. thanks
Thanks so much Joe! As much as we like to think that our logical mind is in control, its power is almost nothing compared to our subconscious programming. Yes, there are ways to change the programming but it takes practice to make the changes stick.
The more I see the link between subconscious beliefs and health in others (and myself), the more dedicated I have become to getting rid of unwanted and unhealthy beliefs and replacing them with ones that support me on every level. Mindfulness is key in this shift.
Hi Paige,
This is a very nice post about fighting off our own self limiting beliefs.
When something comes along my life that rocks my boat and that does not match my vision, I don’t make a big deal of it. I do not let it throw me overboard. i just tell myself it’s an anomaly, and as soon as possible I can get back to focusing on what I want.
Remember, the obstacles that show up are life’s gift to support us in bringing what we want closer to manifestation. It is important that we acknowledge the progress we have made. Seeing our progress gives hope, encourages us to move forward, and nurtures our lives’ enthusiasm.
I completely agree with you Patricia. Everything happens for a reason and those bumps come along to make us stronger for our journey ahead. There is no failure – only experiences to learn from.
Hey Paige.
Your beliefs certainly can determine your health.
There is a thing called Psychoneuroimmunology (say that ten times fast). PNI is (put simply) the impact our thinking can have (positively or negatively) on our immune system. Some might call it the interplay or relationship between our thoughts and our physiology (well, part of our physiology). It is now known – not hypothesised or theorised – that our thoughts can increase or decrease our chances of becoming sick, of recovering more quickly or slowly and, in some instances, of recovering at all. No, we don’t totally understand it (well, I don’t) but, yes, we know it’s a reality. In fact, we have known about (the science of) PNI for around forty years. We just haven’t explored it, exploited it or tapped into it as effectively as we could. In my opinion.
However, in many cultures less scientific and educated than ours, the powerful relationship between mind and body (in terms of potential for healing) has been respected, explored and exploited for millennia.
Some shamans in remote areas of the world are well aware of the power of an individual to cure themselves and use that as a legitimate part of their “whole person” treatment. Their ceremonies sometimes give their patient the feeling that they are being given “the works”. The sick person totally buys into the treatment, and their internal curative powers step in to do the work. That is, they heal themselves courtesy of their belief in the ‘treatment’.
Craig
Thanks for this Craig! I’ve read a few studies about PNI and, yes, the connection is really there. Sometimes I think so many things about western medicine actually prevent our body’s natural ability to heal itself. Drugs are rarely the answer but it’s what most docs are taught so they don’t know how to believe in nutrition and lifestyle changes over medicine. If it’s not what’s taught in school then it “can’t” be true, despite tons of evidence. Again, it’s all about beliefs.
Interesting perspective that I had never thought of before now. I spend my working days thinking and planning my actions which I will take on that night with regards to my own business. I am not challenged at work and, because of this, I am able to do my job while planning the launch of my own projects!
Kayla,
Sounds like you may have the perfect job that allows you to build the business you love on the side. Keep building a little every day and, before you know it, you won’t need that other job. Best wishes on your launches!
Thanks! Thats the plan really, I decided to make use of the “downtime” also known as working when I started to look for another job last year and couldnt find anything I really liked the look of at all. I decided I couldnt be so bored all day from 9-5 and I knew that in the job I was working i was unable to apply myself or even 1/4 of myself. Rather than move to something else and get board in 6 months I decided to just be sneaky and use the downtime more and more productively planning my out of work time.
I just need to be sure I dont get caught!
Paige,
Great article, it really makes you think. I am especially interested in the mind-body connection and would be interested in checking out the book that you referred to. I first heard about this about 15 years ago in a book I read called the Holographic Universe, which if I recall correctly discussed the ability to focus on specific organs and get to the root cause of the ailments of the particular organ. Thanks for the post!
Thank you Patrick! The more research I do on the topic, the more I find. I’m currently reading a couple of Candace Pert’s books. Her first big one was Molecules of Emotion. She and her husband are scientists and researchers who have devoted themselves to researching the mind-body connection. Very interesting!
I love the title of this post! That should be a book title!! I call the unwanted beliefs “shadow beliefs” and the beliefs I consciously substitute for them “counter beliefs.” Great advice! (Really think about that book!)
Thank you for this Galen! Shadow beliefs remind me of the concept of the shadow self – the parts of you that you spend your life trying to hide, the parts of you that haunt you. Most people spend most of their lives and so much emotional energy trying to keep them hidden. The only way to keep them from draining us is to acknowledge and, in a way, befriend them. The same is true of these shadow beliefs. Notice them. Acknowledge them and the power they’ve held. Bring them into the light and deliberately change them.
Funny you mentioned the book. The next creation I put out into the world will be a book. I’ve been trying to decide what to write about. Thanks for the idea!
Big Hugs!!
Earlier I struggled with being consistent with exercise. I did go to the gym a few times a week, but it was really demotivating and I had periods where I wouldn’t go at all. One of my roomies at that time, who I had been living with for two months in which I had been in a good period regarding exercising, told me one day “You’re so healthy and fit going to the gym all the time, I wish I could be more like you”. I was really surprised, because I didn’t see myself like that at all, it was just a struggle for me.
I see today, maybe 5 years later, that this moment was the one that changed my attitude towards exercising. I have never had troubles with being consistent since that, it is now a part of me. Why? Because in that moment I changed my belief about myself. If she could see me like that, why couldn’t I?
Thanks again for an inspiring post! I do have other negative beliefs about myself I still need to work on.
Wow! What a perfect example of this concept Maya! That’s awesome that you were able to make that shift. And how you did it proves that it can happen in a heartbeat – if we allow it. Perhaps asking people close to you how they see you with respect to your other negative beliefs can help to shift those too.
I put a post-it in my bathroom mirror that says, “Acknowledge your awesomeness!” Each time I look at it, I derive a slightly different meaning from it. Hearing about your awesomeness from others can help to shift those negative views we erroneously hold of ourselves. Maybe have a session with a friend where you tell each other what you think is so awesome about the other person.
Thanks so much Maya!
Like you say Paige, one’s self-image, deep rooted in the subconscious has total power of veto over one’s actions. I struggled to give up cigarettes for years for example, simply because my self-image was that of an unhealthy guy. That predefined self-image dragged me back to the cigarettes time and time again. It was only when I radically revised my self-image by overhauling my lifestyle and thinking of myself as a ‘healthy person’ that the addiction lost its grip.
You make an interesting point about affirmations. Again, you’re absolutely right. Telling yourself, “Every day, in every way, I’m getting better and better” simply won’t work if you’re subconscious disagrees with the message. Self-comparison theory suggests that we automatically reject on a subconscious level anything that doesn’t fit with our own core beliefs. And what’s more, the discord between the message and the core belief simply exacerbates any underlying psychological issue.
So, core beliefs really do ‘hijack your brain’. With that realisation, hopefully people can appreciate the importance of working with their core beliefs instead of railing against them.
Great post Paige, enjoyed it.
Thanks so much Gareth! Your example of quitting smoking one is a perfect one. Your subconscious was finding ways to support your core belief that you were an unhealthy person. Until you changed that belief, will power and all the tricks and techniques weren’t going to do a bit of good for lasting change.
Before following any set of exercises to create change in a person’s life, I always have people get very clear on their underlying values and core beliefs. Without getting those in alignment with their vision of themselves, it’s a recipe for frustration and failure.
Thanks for the awesome comment!
HI Paige,
A great post as usual!! I love what you wrote: Figure out what positive belief you want to embed in your subconscious instead. I needed that today!
Thanks for the reminders!
xoxo
Betsy
Thanks Betsy! It can be kind of scary when we start noticing the kinds of beliefs we’ve carried around with us for so long. Noticing is always the first step toward making positive changes. Making conscious and intentional choices about what we believe can totally transform our lives.
Keep being awesome!
Big Hugs!!
Hi Paige,
Really great post and I love the title – Perfect.
The POWER of our intentions is staggering. I really responded to this sentence “The next step is to feel the pain these beliefs have created in your life”.
One of the first questions I ask people who have decided to start down the path to a change in their life is “Where does it hurt”. The silence is often deafening while I wait for them to speak up. People want me to tell them where it hurts instead of reaching inside and even acknowledging the pain. It amazes me every single time the ability of people to block out – Mentally block out – this pain. The great part though is when they identify “Where it hurts” as well as being in synch with what that hurt is costing them. I tell them it’s like money in the bank… Let go of the belief and pay yourself instead.
Thanks for adding so much to this topic.
Cheers,
Alan
Thank you so much Alan! You’re totally right about the hurt. When we’re all trudging along, doing what we think we’re supposed to do, we don’t want to acknowledge the pain. We think it’s not supposed to be there because we’re busy being good little citizens. Unfortunately, there are all too many people experiencing and trying to block out this pain every day. I spent decades doing it.
But when we let that pain surface and start to feel it, yes it hurts but that hurt feeling is critical in moving away from it. Like any other fear, the only way to get past it is to walk into it.
That’s awesome that you’re helping others do the same!
You make such an important point about the centrality of beliefs, Paige. What we believe sets the stage for what we think and what we do. While a change in our thinking may provide the fastest change to our happiness, changing what we believe will provide the most permanent change.
And yet so many people are plagued by the wounds of self-inflicted belief systems that were never truly considered. What we believe about life and what’s possible, who we are and what potential lies below skin-level profoundly affects the decisions we make, the attitudes we harbor and the lives we lead.
Thanks so much for sharing this insight, Paige.
Just like with our subconscious, it’s almost scary to what depths our beliefs control us. Every day I observe people see or hear things that didn’t happen and vice versa in a subconscious attempt to ensure that their beliefs remain true for them.
Sometimes it can be frustrating working with others with such limiting beliefs about themselves. Even when you show people what they’re capable of by their own prior actions and accomplishments, they still can’t believe in their own possibilities. It’s like peeling an onion to strip away layers of old, sabotaging beliefs to uncover the shining gem inside.
We all choose our own beliefs. Unfortunately, they’re frequently buried so deep that it’s hard to see them for ourselves. We identify ourselves with them making them “who we are” which makes them incredibly difficult to change. Difficult but not impossible.
Thanks for the awesome comment Ken!
Hi Paige… I have recently begun exploring the idea that synchronicity is neither random nor rare… that we have an underlying connected consciousness… an intuitive consciousness… a collective intuition, if you like, that only appears evident under dramatic circumstances simply because we allow ourselves to become mundane… we run and spin our wheels and forget how important and connected we are to each other. I would like you to know how important you are…
We recently received news that my wife’s Mom has cancer and your post “My Beliefs Have Hijacked My Brain” lands in my inbox. It should be noted here that Mom is a retired nurse and a strong proponent of western medicine. She is also very intelligent and understands that western medicine is not the be-all-end-all so I will forward your article to her. Your inclusion of the link re: epigenetics makes this all a little overwhelming. Coincidence indeed.
Thanks Paige.
Wow! Thank you so much Sheldon! I definitely believe that we’re all connected and that everything happens for a reason at the right time.
I’m not sure if you read it but a few posts ago (Not Doing What You Love Is Literally Killing You) I wrote about someone in my life who has stage 4 cancer. Unfortunately, to this person, western medicine is the be-all-end-all.
There’s so much more to us than simply pieces parts that make up a physical body. The powers of thought, beliefs and the collective consciousness are so powerful and science is finally beginning to prove it. Sometimes I wonder why things need to be “proven” using such limited and archaic means in order for some people to believe. The evidence is pretty clear to me.
I’m happy that these messages appeared for you at the right time. In terms of the collective consciousness and synchronicity, I’ve been reading articles “everywhere” about the power of beliefs. It seems that it’s time for this message to come out in many ways to many people at the same time.
Thank you so much for being a part of our community here! You’re awesome!!
Love everything you say here Paige. It’s absolutely true that those subconscious beliefs are driving what we experience in life. And the good news is, no one can set our own beliefs but us! Conscious attention to the inner narrative can make a profound difference on what’s going on ‘under the surface.’
Recently I’ve discovered EFT or ‘tapping as another powerful tool to delve into what’s powering that negative narrative and to reprogram my programming. I know that Louise Hay has used this technique along with many others who have successfully overcome hugely debilitating past traumas. I’m a newbie at but definitely exploring it as another tool in the ‘rewrite my story’ toolbox.
Thanks again for joining me on the interview! Your story is always such an inspiration!
Thanks so much Sarah! I discovered tapping a couple years ago but haven’t made it a dedicated practice. I’ve seen first-hand how quickly and effectively it works in eliminating life-long phobias. I know a therapist who has successfully used EMDR for years and now she has included EFT in her practice and has amazing results with her clients. Yes, both modalities are especially effective with eliminating the emotional charges of past traumas.
After reading Bruce Lipton’s Biology of Belief, I also learned about PSYCH-K as another way of changing deeply ingrained beliefs. I don’t know much about it yet but have read about its effectiveness in a variety of publications.
As with fears, pains and so many unwanted things in our lives, the best way to get rid of them is to acknowledge and accept them. As long as we resist them and pretend they don’t exist, the more power they seem to have over us.
I loved our interview! Thank you so much for inviting me! I love your writing and everything you’re doing at Holistic Hot Sauce!!
Big Hugs!!